Dummy advertising-package.



G. B. COMPTON.

DUMMY ADVERTISING PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.29,1910.

Patented Dec. 20, 1910.

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GEDRGE l3. .COMPTON, OF ST. LOUIS; MISSOURI.

BUIKMY ADVERTISING-PACKAGE.

Application filed April 29, 1910. Serial No. 558,420.-

nackao c of the character commonly displayed in store windows toadvertise various commodities contained in smaller packages of likekind. These advertising packages are usually imitations of the Tsiiizillpackage on a very large scale und'are not intended to be used ascontainers.

The object of my inventionis to produce a substaru ial cylindrical knockdown dummy package of this cliuractcr having very simple parts which canbe very easily interlocked with each other.

l figu I a perspective view of a cylins drical dummy pupcr packageembodying the features of my invention. XI is a pen. spcctivc showingparts of the dummy package ready to be assembled. Ill is section takenon line lli lli, Fina-l. Fig. V-llfl'l ig. I.

inns 3r desig- In the accompanying d1 nates u cylindrical bod" made of asheet of paper. the edges of which overlap when the body of the dummypackage is formed, one ot the edges of the sheet being provided withpairs of parallel slits 1 mic adapted to receive locking tongues whichproject from tho other edge. Each tongue 3 passes through 21 pair, ofthe slits land 2 Fiq. IV), extends into tho package und has its tree endinterposed between the overlapping p rtions of the sheet A. Thesetongues can be very ezis l ."o ded baclnvzirdly to pass through the"iust described, and when so zirruuof vei F lirmly held p sitiou b uppingportions of the sheet lock with the ends or ii e tongue, thus comietingthe body of-tl e 'dunnny package. The body .i is proi'idcd near its endswith pairs of parallel slits 4 which produce yielding webs 5huvinoftheir ends integrally conlHlU-i in the body is,

. hich Irictionally engu re and intermovement thereof.

B designates the heads of the package which are formed of a single sheetof paper and are ofn circular shape. At intervals around the edge ofeach head are tongues 6 bent at a right-angle to the plane of the head.The heads B are inserted into the cylindrical body A. at. its ends, andthe tongues 6 of these heads are, for the pur pose of securing the headsto the body A, passed through the outermost slit 4, and their throughthe innermost companion slit 4, it being understood that to permit suchpassage of the tongues. the-Webs5 are bent inwardly, as illustrated inthe drawings.-

lhese inwardly bent Webs form stops adaptcd to engage the heads B andlimit inward As seen in Fig. 3, the tongues 6. upon being introduced ashas been stated, are ciuscd to hear at their outer faces against thewall of the body A above and beneath the webs 5, and at their innert'accs against said webs, whereby they are held in position Within thebody with a suffi- I cient degree of firmness to prevent the escape ofthe heads "from the body of a dummy package, and such dummy package istherefore made adequately substantial for the use for which it isintended, namely, that of serving as an artlvertisingmediunnin whichconnection it is not necessary to place any contents in the package.

I claim:

A dummy paper package con'lprising a cylindrical body inade of a sheetof paper having pairs of slits adjacent its endsand inwardly bent websbetween said slits, and means for holding the edges. of said sheet ofpaper together, said means includings pair of circular paper headsinserted into opposite nds of the cylindrical body, the" inwardly bentWebs forming stops adapted to engage said heads, each of said headshaving, :1 circular row of tongues which extend toward the middle of thebody, pass through said pairs of slitshnd hear at theirfree ends againstthe interior of the body and at their inner ends against the exterior ofsaid Webs cs0. B. COMPTON.

In the presence of. E. B. LINN, A. J. McCAuLnY.

